Project Status: Formal Petition to Audit Iowa HHS — not yet submitted. ORR lanes active.

This page summarizes public-records requests and related agency correspondence supporting the Iowa HHS Audit Request. The entries below are drawn from the project’s verified ORR master log and administrative communication tracker. Status language reflects the public request record as captured in the source log and does not represent agency endorsement, audit acceptance, or formal petition submission.

Source status: updated from the August 8, 2026 administrative communication tracker containing 61 logged ORR communication/status events. Internal source paths, account emails, and private working files are intentionally omitted from this public page.

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Tracked Request Lanes
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Logged Communication Events
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Public Bodies Represented
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Formal Petition to Audit

Request Lane Summary

Lane Agency Filed Status Notes
ORR1 Iowa HHS No. 26-927 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services March 5, 2026 Open Events logged: 24. Initial broad Iowa Code Chapter 22 request seeking child-welfare system, funding, provider-ecosystem, removal-tool, judicial-coordination, outcomes/disparities, internal-accountability, federal-review, and data-integrity records from January 1, 2010 to present. The latest logged agency response cited Iowa HHS open-records policy and Iowa Code section 22.3 regarding three free hours and charges thereafter, without a visible grant or denial of the fee-waiver request.
  • Key issue: Fee waiver / access-cost barrier; request remains fee-gated in the working record.
ORR2 Iowa HHS No. 26-1536 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services April 10, 2026 Open / Partial Events logged: 8. Request focused on CCWIS/VISION governance records, Implementation Advance Planning Documents, data-governance policies, audit-trail records, and vendor-deliverable documentation for Iowa’s child-welfare technology modernization work. The source log identifies a partial production and continuing unresolved items, including KinderTrack/data-governance materials.
  • Key issue: VISION/CCWIS governance, data-governance policy, and remaining fee-gated records.
ORR3 Iowa HHS No. 26-2485 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services June 11, 2026 Closed Events logged: 14. Request lane involving HHS records and a fee-waiver dispute. The source log records multiple fee-waiver/closure events, a contested closure, a department reassignment/misrouting issue, and an August 3, 2026 agency explanation stating the reassignment was a clerical error and that a fee-waiver-denial PDF was posted/released.
  • Key issue: Fee-waiver handling, request closure process, and administrative routing integrity.
Status: Closed by agency after contested closure / document-release clarification.
ORR4 Iowa Judicial Branch JUD-1 Iowa Judicial Branch June 11, 2026 Open Events logged: 5. Direct records request concerning judicial/CLE/training, Children’s Justice, CIP, interagency coordination, and related materials. The source log records an agency response pointing to public CLE links and a follow-up explaining that event titles do not answer the request for underlying curricula, memoranda, coordination records, or internal search targets.
  • Key issue: Search adequacy and scope of responsive records.
ORR5 Iowa Legislative Ombudsman OMB-1 Iowa Office of Ombudsman June 11, 2026 Partial Events logged: 3. Request to the Iowa Office of Ombudsman. The source log records an agency response denying certain categories as confidential under Iowa Code section 2C.8 and related administrative rules, while voluntarily producing a seven-year statewide complaint/investigation/substantiation dataset table for FY2018 through FY2024.
  • Key issue: Confidentiality barrier under Iowa Code section 2C.8 and public statistical accountability.
ORR6 Iowa Department of Education DOE-1 Iowa Department of Education June 11, 2026 Pending Events logged: 7. Public-data request involving education-related records and the DOE-HHS coordination lane. The source log records a June 23 amended/clarified scope, a July 16 follow-up, and a July 16 DOE response confirming receipt, denying the fee-waiver request, and stating that DOE was gathering a copy of the MOU between the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services and would fulfill the data request when the requested information was finalized.
  • Key issue: Pending MOU production, fee waiver denial, and cross-agency education/child-welfare coordination records.